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The published database is actually for the Foreign Labor Certification application (a.k.a LCA), which precedes making an H-1B application, and mostly approved. A certified LCA may not result into a successful H-1B petition though.

There have have few proposals that give blanket approval for spouses of H1-B: The Senate bill of 2013 does, and few House proposals as well, like the House SKILLS Visa Act (https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr2131/text).

I maybe pessimistic, but I haven't seen any progress in H-4 employment proposals recently and the article doesn't point to any particular proposal.

The Senate bill for Immigration reform passed the Senate last June, but the House isn't taking a vote on it.

The house in turn had similar proposals last year in committee, but House leadership has no plans of putting them to a general vote at least till November elections.

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My general interests are in building mobile apps and large scalable distributed server systems.

Experience with many technologies:

- iOS and Android development

- Server technologies: Scala/Python/Java, AWS/EC2, Hadoop, Akka, Postgres/MongoDB/Redis/MySQL

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- Web development with Django

- server languages of choice: Scala/Python/Java

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github: https://github.com/notnoop

stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/125844/notnoop

linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mahmoodali

What's the benefit of opting out? Opting Out results into Google not providing better ads to you; Google may still track and categorize users and the collected information may still be used for other uses (e.g. personalized search/news, personalizing its own ad campaigns).

Pushing iPhone notification requires (somewhat persistent) socket connections. Some environments forbid that, like Google App Engine.

I published my notifo notification code at http://gist.github.com/377357 .

Scala has pretty nice concurrent programming support with its actors, which can even run distributed across machines: http://akkasource.org/ . Scala actors are modeled after Erlang.

A bit unrelated, but I found http://pivotallabs.com/talks/88-demystifying-online-billing to offer a good explanation for managing recurring payments and what to watch out for.